Literature Features

It took me a day to lose my soul. When I started working in publishing – and in particular, looking at unsolicited submissions, what some refer to as ‘the slush pile’ – I was sure I would be a bit of a wimp. I had edited anthologies before,…

Children’s author E.R. Murray is a Middlesbrough transplant in West Cork. She has also lived in both Dublin and Spain, among other places, and her sense of place has a great influence on the setting of her novels. Ebony Smart, the…

Nat Newman set herself the challenge of only reading women writers for a year. Here she talks about her experience and how it changed and enriched her reading habits for good. A few years ago, on this very site, I announced that I was going…

Reading a book for the first time can have the flavor of a walk in an unknown wood – the way seems long because everything in front of you is new. Re-reading a book is like a retracing of your footsteps. Certain signposts tell you where you…

Donal Fogarty talks to Caroline Doherty de Novoa about her book 'Was Gabo an Irishman?' exploring the parallels with Irish culture in the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Being that rather rare species – an Irish-English teacher working at a…

One of my favourite jokes in Blackadder occurs in the episode titled “Ink and Incapability” of Blackadder the Third in which Blackadder mentions to Baldrick that he wrote his novel under a female pseudonym because “everybody’s doing it…

We have asked some of Ireland's top literary types to give us their top picks for Books of the Year 2017. Did we miss any of your favourites? Let us know in the comments. Let's get stuck in: Here are the HeadStuff Books of the Year 2017 Liz…

This week literary and culture themed podcast Words To That Effect joins the HeadStuff Podcast Network. Episode 12 delves into the history of zombies in myth, literature and science, and like other episodes offers up a listening experience…

From its broadest strokes to its tiniest details, Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman is built out of weirdness. Weirdness is not only its dominant style but its very element, its operating logic, its final destination, and its means of…

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